I’ve grown super worried about LLM agents w/ access to all my files and secrets. Existing sandboxes and containers felt hard to use day-to-day, so I built a small convenient utility to keep agents away from important stuff. It’s called “bulle” (for “bubble”). 1/2 vincentarelbundock.github.io/bulle

Just bring Mbappé back to PSG so I can get back the PSG I grew up with (the one everybody makes fun of)

Last week I was at the EUI for a workshop on survey experiments with brilliant PhD researchers. And then I presented a new paper in Lausanne, thanks to @evakrejcova.bsky.social ‘s invitation Why posting only now? Because I’m marking

We have a new paper out in PNAS. Susanna’s thread outlines our findings. The big picture takeaway is that well-designed climate education (active, personally relevant, science-based) can complement fiscal and regulatory instruments by building public support for ambitious policy!

🚨 8 days left to apply! @svenhegewald.bsky.social and I a are happy to answer questions of prospective applicants.

Join us Wednesday at 1:30 PM (ET)! Navigating the non-academic #jobmarket as a political science graduate student or PhD can require a different approach than #academia. "Pursuing Non-Academic Careers with a Political Science PhD" Register here to join us!

Postdoc alert! Fellow in Public Policy at the LSE School of Public Policy. Up to 3 years, a great job in a tight market. Needs to be able to support teaching on our MPP program, but political scientists could definitely do this (make your case!) www.jobs.lse.ac.uk

Really glad to have been invited to this speaker series! Looking forward to my first visit to Münster (also my fourth country in six days)

We are inviting applications for a two-year postdoctoral position in a collaborative meta-science project on the effectiveness of data and code sharing policies in research-performing organizations. www.tue.nl/en/working-a...

There is a rare permanent job in the UK - assistant prof (lecturer) in political science with a focus on quant methods www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRD143/a...

New paper out in @thejop.bsky.social : "Immigration, Public Housing, and Support for the French National Front." How does expanding public housing affect far-right support? The answer depends heavily on local conditions, and specifically on local immigrant shares. Paper: doi.org/10.1086/736361

Visiting at @cevipof.bsky.social (Sciences Po) until end of April. If you’re around and want to grab a coffee, let me know!

We are hiring a tenure track (!) senior researcher in political economy! This is obviously a great job (permanent without teaching obligation) and I hope you all apply. However, I would like to take a moment to share just how significant this is in the German academic context ⬇️

📣 New job at Oxford's Centre for Advanced Social Science Methods (CASSM)! 📣 The Departments of Politics & IR (DPIR) and Social Policy and Intervention (DSPI) are hiring an Associate Professor of Causal and Experimental Methods. Come work with me and amazing Oxford peeps! Deadline NOON April 27th.

Come work with us! Postdoctoral researcher position in metascience on the UKRI-Funded PRIME project (Bath U), evaluating & implementing results‑blind peer review & translating evidence into policy & practice. FT/PT flexibility possible Advert: www.bath.ac.uk/jobs/Vacancy.... #metasci

E. Gregoire elected Mayor of Paris with a left-wing coalition without radical left LFI. Same results likely in the Lyon and Marseille. Symbolically important: LFI may no longer be seen as necessary for the viability of a left wing presidential candidate 1/2⬇️ www.lemonde.fr/politique/li...

🔥 POSTDOC POSITIONS ON CHILDREN'S POLITICAL SOCIALIZATION 🔥 Wanna understand young people's beliefs about political leadership, politics, and power? Then this is your chance! I'm looking for two 2-year postdocs to join my ERC-funded research project @au.dk international.au.dk/about/profil...

I am excited about this new paper, Negativity & Misinformation, just out with @cbwlezien.bsky.social in @polcommjournal.bsky.social: "durable biases in information processing, by media organizations and humans more generally, can produce misinformation and misperceptions..." doi.org/10.1080/1058...

This will be the 3rd edition. If you study pol. behaviour and work on #CEE, this is the right place to present your research. Dates: June 25-26. Discussants include @simonhix.bsky.social & @eliasdinas.bsky.social. Highlight: roundtable on dem. erosion with H. Kriesi, M. Svolik & N. Wunsch.

Hey everyone, anyone with good knowledge of Estonian society who would be happy to have a quick chat about it? I would really appreciate it and would be happy to return the favor if you ever work on a project on Portugal (or another country I am familiar with). Thank you!

🚨 TADA Speaker Series Spring 2026 schedule is here! 🚨 We've assembled a fantastic lineup of researchers exploring the future of survey research in the age of LLMs. Mar 18 - May 27, online at 17:00 CEST. Join us! More info & signup: tada.cool

Are parties responsive to public opinion? In my first research note, just published in @ejprjournal.bsky.social, I find consistent evidence that parties across the EU shift their positions to align with the preferences of their partisan supporters: doi.org/10.1017/S147... 1/12 🧵

Best way to discover the UK? Take a train. You might reach your destination, but you’ll definitely see places you never meant to. Personal best: 6 trains + 1 bus to do Birmingham–London (a 1h20 journey). Today’s goal: Edinburgh, one train. Reality: 2 trains (for now), a ‘short walk’ (?!), and a bus

"The academic structure … makes planning for a family feel like an impossible luxury." In this #ScienceWorkingLife, two postdocs share how, as women in academia, having children can feel impossible—and how talking about it makes them feel less alone. https://scim.ag/46uBWgD #WomenInScienceDay

🚨History Job: Assistant Professor in Early Modern British History (Permanent) 🗃️ Come work with us at Warwick! You will join a group of excellent early-modernists and one of the nicest bunches of historians around! 👇👇👇 @uni-of-warwick.bsky.social warwick-careers.tal.net/vx/lang-en-G...

I hear the new Dutch coalition agreement includes this (translation): “We are also investigating the introduction of an electoral threshold and a new electoral system for the House of Representatives, in which preferential votes are given more weight.” Fascinating to see how this plays out.

reminds me of a friend who explained why recent years have felt so weird to so many millennials here and it’s because “we went into the pandemic young people and came out of it old”

New submission format at SBE: “Replications as Registered Reports” link.springer.com/journal/1118... You can get "in-principle acceptance" before data collection even begins; final paper gets published regardless the results, if the study is conducted rigorously. #EconSky

A very interesting paper, worth a read especially on a day like this .

The section is searching for new editors for @jepsjournal.bsky.social ! Please check out the call here, and circulate widely: connect.apsanet.org/s42/editor-s...

I’m still not sure whether I like it or not. But at least it makes me smile, sometimes

🧵 PhD position (75%) in Political Behavior / Political Communication / CSS 📍 LMU Munich | ⏳ 3 years | 🗓 start March–May 2026 We’re hiring for DemocraGPT, a @bidt.bsky.social-funded project developing an AI-based training for difficult conversations in times of growing polarization

« Not as many people now have a mortgage that they’ve paid off and a roof over their head that they can call their own. Lots more people are renting, relying on housing benefit which has been frozen, so it’s not rocket science, eventually they will end up experiencing homelessness »

Can reflecting on past democratic backsliding episodes “inoculate” citizens into vigilant liberal democrats? Drawing on the Slovak case, @movadek.bsky.social & I will find out: our registered report is in-principle accepted @thejop.bsky.social & survey results forthcoming! See tinyurl.com/uv5wybhs

New position at @sciencespo-cee.bsky.social, dont’t hesitate to apply if you study ecological transitions👇👇👇

Madrid is quickly becoming a great hub for social science research. If you would consider moving here, here’s one potential way to do so:

Yes. This is important. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...

New post-doc position working with me in a new lab at @snfagora.bsky.social ! It's one year appointment, renewable for up to 5 years. The position includes data analysis and independent research, mentorship of lab members, and participation in SNF Agora Institute life. apply.interfolio.com/178796

🚀 Announcing the Besample Dissertation Grant (N=3,000) If you’re a Ph.D. student in psychology, economics, sociology, political science, communication, or any related field, this is your chance to get full funding for testing your theory across cultures. Apply: study.besample.app/jfe/form/SV_...

Over the moon 😍. My paper "Renewing Democracy: How Exposure to Electoral Turnovers Reinforces Citizens’ Democratic Support" is accepted in World Politics. LINK: osf.io/preprints/os.... First paper fully conceived since my second child was born 4 years ago. For those who know, big milestone. 🧵 1/

🚨 3-Year Postdoc in Political Science at Aarhus University 🚨 I’m seeking to recruit a postdoc for my @erc.europa.eu research project 𝑬𝑸𝑼𝑰𝑳𝑰𝑩𝑹𝑰𝑼𝑴 on state-citizen interactions. Link and more information in second post. Position Start: Fall 2026 Application Deadline: ‼️ February 5, 2026, 23:59 CET ‼️

Really cool work from Lauren! *Pret A Manger cannot be classified as French

🚨Jobs!🚨 3-year PostDoc positions (aka Research Officers) at @lsegovernment.bsky.social to work with me on the local consequences of border change. Please reach out for questions and apply by Jan 4th to join the team and department: I’d love to hear from you! Job ad: jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...

🚨Job News: Postdoc positions in LSE Government Department 🚨 Apply to work with the brilliant and wonderful Carl Muller-Crepon @carlmc.bsky.social on his BORDERS ERC project at LSE @lsegovernment.bsky.social jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...

I love football, especially my beloved Olympique de Marseille. But Infantino makes it extremely difficult not to consider boycotting the World Cup. It was already a close call with the one in Qatar

Experimental participants to us

A short preprint describing our adoption of more consistent and precise use of terminology related to reproducibility, robustness, replicability, repeatability, and credibility. osf.io/preprints/me...

Friday brought good news and bad news. Today I am now allowed to share the good. Via the generous donation of the Wallenberg Foundation and the Swedish Royal Academy of Sciences, I now have a few million euros to help understand more about the selective inclusion of LGBTQ+ citizens

So this happened a little while ago. I'm very grateful to the judges from the @psaireland.bsky.social and to @kevcunningham.bsky.social for generous financial support of the prize. It was great to be in Galway a few weeks ago to collect the award at the PSAI annual conference. lnkd.in/dEsZBksB

🎤 The ninth session of the PBC will host @riazsascha.bsky.social from @eui-sps.bsky.social, who will present: "Regime Loyalty in Wartime Nazi Germany" 📍 Join us on Zoom! Please register here: www.eui.eu/events?id=58...